Gang kidnaps toddler outside house to sell, rescued after 15 days, 4 arrested

Ghaziabad: A four-year-old boy was rescued from Moradabad, 15 days after he was allegedly kidnapped by a woman while he was playing outside his home in Sudamapuri area, police said on Wednesday.
The cops have also arrested four persons in connection with the case. The police found the arrested accused are part of a gang that “kidnapped and sold” children in other cities.
According to police, the accused — Tarun (20), Rohit (25), and Kamlesh (55, also Rohit’s mother) — are residents of Vijay Nagar. Meanwhile, Rampal alias Rajbahadur (45), is from Moradabad. The cops are still tracing the woman who took the child from outside his house.
On June 29, a woman from Lal Quarter in Sudamapuri lodged a missing complaint at Vijay Nagar police station. She said that her son was playing outside with other children when she sent him to a shop to buy a milk packet. When the boy didn’t return for over an hour, she went looking. Unable to trace him, she went to the cops who lodged the case under IPC Section 363 (kidnapping).
She also told the cops that she suspected her ex-husband to be behind the kidnapping. However, police found a CCTV footage in which two men could be seen with the boy on a bike. The men were then traced.
Rajeev Singh, SHO (Vijay Nagar), said the accused confessed that the woman who kidnapped the child took the boy to an empty shop where Rohit and Tarun were waiting. “Rohit and Tarun took the boy and handed him over to Kamlesh, who knew Rampal,” he added. Rampal had fixed a deal with a person in Moradabad for Rs 2 lakh. “A police office contacted Rampal four days ago and introduced himself as a customer, claiming he had been married for several years but had no children. The cop offered him Rs 3 lakh for the boy,” he said.
“Rampal asked the cop to reach Moradabad. Police arrested him and rescued the boy,” he added. Police have also recovered the two-wheeler that was used in the crime.